Manufactured sands increase efficiency for Grange Quarry Anew modular washing plant has allowed Grange Quarry to increase the efficiency of their concrete manvfacturing operation by eliminating the requirement to buy in washed sand and aggregates. The new plant i sitated at Kelheod Quarry sear Annan in Scoland and inclades the M2500 E4 mobile woshing plant and AggMax 83 portable logwasher. Operational since October 2012 the new plant has o copocity of 200 tonnes per hour and is processing 075mm limestone conglomerate motel o produce a O-inm wshed manufacturod sand os well os 46mm grit and tree washed aggregates - 610mm, 10:20mm ond 20-40mm. The 40-7 5mm material is crushed and fed back to the washing plot The efficiency gains have come fom eliminating the requirement to buy in washed sand for use inthe conciele plant operated by Gronge Quarry at Kirkburn, Lockerbie Before we bought the CDE plani we were buying in large quantities of washed sand from various Sources and we ore now able to produce this material ourselves" explains Stuart Dodd, Managing Director or Grang Quarry lid. “The washing plant hos also dallowed vs to enkance the qualy of our concrete aggregates which has nol only introduced efficiencies 1o our production processes but hither improved the qualiy of ‘ur concrete preccts.” Ih wos the intioduction of the AggMax system tha! enabled Grange Guarry fo produce concrete specication oggregates from the limestone conglomerate material a! Kelhead Quarry. The clay present within the feed material tequted on ation systom which would effectively separate the clay from the limestone aggregate mater. "We wen! to see the AggMax system in operation on a C&D wast recycling project fr Moicoln CConstuction in Irvine in jly of this year” explains Stuart Dodd. “This demonstated to 1s the capably ofthe machine to effectively deal withthe cloy in our material.” The laed material is delivered to the M2500 intially where intial screening seporctes the 6mm sand and git fiction from the 640mm aggregate moleril. This aggregate meter sen dalvered to he Aga, ‘ehich include tho Rotamax RX8O logwasher tnd 0 kiple deck dewolering screen on 0 single chassis. Once the matesial has possed Cee forcement through the Rotomax the scrubbed aggregates are discharged onto the integroted dewalecng screen where They are sized ino ho final product agiodings. These are subsequenlly stockpiled by hvee 15m mobile ‘conveyors. The waste walet kom the AggMax coniaining the fines liberated by the scrubbing process is returned to the M2500. The Ox6mm material is washed on the M2500 fo preduce 0 Omi wwoshed sand and 4mm git which are stockpiled via two infogrased ‘wing conveyors. The O%mm matercl is delivered to one side of a split dewalering screen where the O-dimm sand falls through fo the sand plant sump while he 46mm motril is dewoleed. The O-mm material is then pumped fo the hydrocyclone where the 0-63 micron matetcl is moved ‘ond the remaining motetial is discharged onio the dewatering screen before being stackpled. The waste water from the sond washing phase Is then dcharged fo ssting ponds. “By minimising the fines contont within ‘ur final sand product we are able 0 incase the efciency of our concrete production ond alto produce a very high quality concrele product” soys Stuart Dodd. The MA2500 and Aggmax combination was chosen by Grange Quatty for his proc! as o result of the moduler nature ofthe equipmnt which allows for quick setup on site ond also sll plant footprint. “The ability for us to get up and running very quickly was crucial in cur decision to invest inthe new plant” says Stuart Dodd. “We acquired the rights fo extract of Kelheod quant in ne ond were producing matsial by the end of October” Qtr scon/aiector 69